How to check to see a segment is blank

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December 1, 2009 at 6:15 pm #51379
Doug Lundin
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I want to check repeating segments (AL1, DG1, IN1) to see if they exist. Can I do this within the translator or do I need a pre proc?
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- December 1, 2009 at 6:37 pm #69972
  Max Drown (Infor)
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  You can do it in either place.
  
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- December 1, 2009 at 6:42 pm #69973
  Doug Lundin
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  How can I do it within a translation? Can’t get it to work
- December 1, 2009 at 6:51 pm #69974
  Max Drown (Infor)
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  Try testing a required field in the segment. For example maybe ‘IF DG1.03 eq @null then …’
  
  I could be wrong on that working, I haven’t tried it myself recently. Personally, I would normally use a tcl proc for that.
  
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- December 1, 2009 at 7:02 pm #69975
  James Cobane
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  I think it’s somewhat dependent on what you want to do based upon the existence/non-existence of the segments. If you want to KILL (or ERROR) the message if the segment doesn’t exist, then you would want to do it in a tps proc. If you simply want to null out something or conditionally COPY/value something on the outbound message, then do it within the Xlate.
  
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